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Jon Bonadeo begins a permitted six-slip harbor project beside Beaver Island's Municipal Marina, 2011

Also Jon Bonadeo Harbor six slips 2011 · Beaver Island six-slip harbor project 2011

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TypeEvent
Date2011-06
WithinSaint James Harbor
ErasModern era
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Locator map: Saint James Harbor highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
Took place at Saint James HarborLocator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.
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Date
2011-06
Kind
Construction
Where
Saint James Harbor
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
maritimeconstructionpropertytransportation
Within
Saint James Harbor

Summary

The June 2011 Beaver Beacon reports that Jon Bonadeo obtained the required permits and began implementing a long-planned addition of six boat slips to his harbor property beside Beaver Island’s Municipal Marina. The report describes moving the boulders that formed the initial abutment.

Evidence limits

The newspaper documents permitted work beginning, but not the final design, construction completion, ownership outcome, or later relationship to the 2013 natural-park proposal.

Sources

See the sources block above.

Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, June 2011, "New Slips."
    Reports that after more than twenty years of planning, Jon Bonadeo obtained the permits and began moving the boulders forming the initial abutment for six boat slips beside the Municipal Marina. It documents permitted work beginning, not final construction or completion. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2011-06_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held June issue scan confirms the six-slip construction report.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2011-06_Beaver-Beacon

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Beaver Island Archive, “Jon Bonadeo begins a permitted six-slip harbor project beside Beaver Island's Municipal Marina, 2011”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-bonadeo-six-harbor-slips-2011/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, June 2011, "New Slips." (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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